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The Village Voice 's Gary Dauphin complains that the film is mired in sentimental cutesiness: "I can dig the urge to know the man behind Conan's bulging biceps, but I don't know if Wide World 's annoying, nutjob-cum-romantic-misfit take on the subject was what I, Howard, or the world really needed."
China policy is mired in incoherence, and the Indian subcontinent is locked in a nuclear arms race.
But the bad guy's dialogue remains laughably mired in the last millennium: "They're rats in a trap!"
The cover story argues that NATO has been more a relief organization than a military force in the Kosovo crisis, sheltering and protecting the displaced as the U.N. relief operation became mired in bureaucracy.
How did our culture get mired in this puritanical paradox?